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MATTER OF HERMAN

No. 90-FM-815.

619 A.2d 958 (1993)

In the MATTER OF Ann HERMAN, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 29, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Patrick Anthony, appointed by the court, for appellant.

Sheila Kaplan, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom John Payton, Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Ann O'Regan Keary, Deputy Corp. Counsel at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for the Dist. of Columbia.

Laurie B. Davis, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, was on the brief, for amicus curiae.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, FERREN, TERRY, STEADMAN, SCHWELB, FARRELL, WAGNER, KING and SULLIVAN, Associate Judges.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Appellant was involuntarily admitted to St. Elizabeths Hospital for emergency observation and diagnosis under D.C.Code § 21-521 (1989). The application was signed by a physician who, appellant asserts, did not meet all the prerequisites set forth in the statute.1 At a hearing held pursuant to § 525, the trial court found that probable cause had been established to believe that "respondent is mentally...

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